From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7B16B004F for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup.. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: References: <1246664107.7551.11.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:08:38 +1000 Message-Id: <1246741718.7551.22.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang , Ingo Molnar List-ID: On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 09:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Just a tiny word of warning: right now, the conversion I did pretty much > depended on the fact that even if I missed a spot, it wouldn't actually > make any difference. If somebody used "flags" as a binary value (ie like > the old "write_access" kind of semantics), things would still all work, > because it was still a "zero-vs-nonzero" issue wrt writes. .../... Right. Oh well.. we'll see when I get to it. I have a few higher priority things on my pile at the moment. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org